Browsers and some parsers (like parse5) handle this by correcting the HTML as follows:
<a href="#"><b>link </b></a><a href="#">nested link</a> end
This library did not fix these tags, until PR #148
New Behaviour
We have determined that the behaviour of fixing the nested A tag is not appropriate for this sort of parser. Parsers which apply fixes produce full compliant HTML, ready for browser consumption. That is not the purpose of this library.
⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️
Because this can be considered a breaking change, we are incrementing the major version #
To support legacy applications which rely on this behaviour being done quickly, during parse, we've silently introduced a new option, which is disabled by default:
Background
Atags which were nested are invalid HTML.Example
Browsers and some parsers (like parse5) handle this by correcting the HTML as follows:
This library did not fix these tags, until PR #148
New Behaviour
We have determined that the behaviour of fixing the nested A tag is not appropriate for this sort of parser. Parsers which apply fixes produce full compliant HTML, ready for browser consumption. That is not the purpose of this library.
⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️
Because this can be considered a breaking change, we are incrementing the major version #
To support legacy applications which rely on this behaviour being done quickly, during parse, we've silently introduced a new option, which is disabled by default:
fixNestedATags